Infection : Manus Prison Syndrome single work   prose  
Issue Details: First known date: 2018... 2018 Infection : Manus Prison Syndrome
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    y separately published work icon No Friend but the Mountains : Writing From Manus Prison No Friend but the Mountains : The True Story of an Illegally Imprisoned Refugee Behrouz Boochani , Omid Tofighian (translator), Sydney : Pan Macmillan Australia , 2018 14342605 2018 selected work prose

    'Where have I come from? From the land of rivers, the land of waterfalls, the land of ancient chants, the land of mountains...

    'Since 2013, Kurdish journalist Behrouz Boochani has been held in the Manus Island offshore processing centre.

    'People would run to the mountains to escape the warplanes and found asylum within their chestnut forests...

    'This book is the result. Laboriously tapped out on a mobile phone and translated from the Farsi. It is a voice of witness, an act of survival. A lyric first-hand account. A cry of resistance. A vivid portrait through five years of incarceration and exile.

    'Do Kurds have any friends other than the mountains? '  (Publication summary)

         Sydney : Pan Macmillan Australia , 2018
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